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At conferences, many poster presentations (see also Chapter 13) are from students or the collaborative work of students and professors. Abstracts from the local, regional, national, or international association meetings in a discipline (e.g., psychology, neuroscience, sociology, environmental design, and anthropology) provide sources of ideas for research. As an example, Figure 2.3 is a photograph of an installation of posters for a session at an environmental psychology conference, the XV Congreso Internacional de Psicologia Ambiental – PSICAMB 2019, held at the Unversidad de La Laguna in Tenerife, Spain.

During poster sessions, a condensed version of the research paper is posted on a bulletin board of some sort. Student researchers stand near their posters, ready to answer questions from conference attendees.

Guidelines for how to create a successful poster are discussed in Chapter 13. Even if you do not attend such conferences, your professors can share the online program with you as a way to search the presentation topics. Many conferences are moving away from distributing a paper program (as a result of sustainability and other cost concerns), and online programs are easily searchable.

In addition, many colleges and universities publish journals of undergraduate student work (see http://www.cur.org/), and some national journals publish student work (e.g., American Journal of Undergraduate Research). Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology, also publishes a journal of psychological research. Not only do these publications provide resources for generating a research idea, but they also serve as possible publication outlets for completed student projects.

Figure 2.3 Poster Presentation Example

Photo © Ann Devlin, courtesy of Boris Jemeric